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"Congress needs your agency’s neutral expertise these days more than ever – with the complexity of Federal programs and tax policy threatening to overwhelm Congress’s capacity to perform adequate oversight."

"Many of the vulnerabilities that existed in 2016, continue to persist across the country. Our election infrastructure remains outdated, low-tech, and nowhere near where it needs to be to prevent future intrusions."

"This is not about administrative agencies going above and beyond to ensure the law is upheld. It is about senior officials in this administration turning suffering children and overwhelmed case workers into pawns in the administration’s immigration deterrence policies."

“Given the vast majority—more than 87 percent—of hard narcotics enter through official U.S. ports of entry, I urge the Administration to reconsider its proposed plan and instead direct TFF Strategic Support funds where they will effectively support law enforcement efforts to shut down illicit drug trafficking.”

"With CBO, Congress has its own independent source of cost estimates for legislation, assessments of the President’s budget proposals, and projections of the future path of spending, revenues and deficits. We need to protect and strengthen that capacity."

"I have to note that your budget requests a sizeable increase -- +$98 million or 13.3 percent. We know that the increase is driven by several large project commitments, and we have to hope that we will get a generous enough 302(b) allocation to address them."

"I have a strong suspicion that the current Administration will propose yet again to slash the CDFI Fund’s budget for the coming fiscal year. And once again, it will be up to Congress to weigh the funding options for this bipartisan program that plays such an important role in generating economic growth and opportunity in some of our nation’s most distressed communities."

"While we have continued to hold annual public witness hearings for American Indian’s and Alaska Natives, this is the first public witness hearing dedicated to non-tribal programs held by this subcommittee since March of 2015."